Knives in the news

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One of my other hobbies is genealogy,and I have spent hours upon hours looking up information on my ancestry tree.Sometimes when I get a little bored of that I switch over to looking up information on Knife Companies articles in old newspapers,I have found lots of information but wasn't able to post it on here until my wife figured out a way to do it,thanks to her for helping me.If you have any newspaper articles ,post them here as they can provide interesting information on how knife companies did business.
The following article I found was about the Phoenix Knife being offered a contract to make a lot of knives.
the newspaper was The Oswego Daily Times Friday Oct. 5th 1894
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This one is interesting ,It is about the New York Knife Co when they were located in Matteawan NY (1852-1856) .The newspaper page was about different companies earning award medals ( not sure what the event was) but New York Knife Co earned a bronze medal for the following.
(The New York Daily Times Friday Jan.20th 1854)
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The startup of Honk Falls Knife Co
"Kingston Daily Freeman Feb. 2 , 1921
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Very interesting. It’s near impossible to find anything related to NYK Matteawan. The info about pistol knives is new to me. Thanks for posting that.
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Here is another Honk Falls.
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Thanks Jay, Here is one about Nagle Reblade.
"The Evening Enterprise April 18, 1916"
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knifegnome wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2020 1:27 am One of my other hobbies is genealogy,and I have spent hours upon hours looking up information on my ancestry tree.Sometimes when I get a little bored of that I switch over to looking up information on Knife Companies articles in old newspapers,I have found lots of information but wasn't able to post it on here until my wife figured out a way to do it,thanks to her for helping me.If you have any newspaper articles ,post them here as they can provide interesting information on how knife companies did business.
The following article I found was about the Phoenix Knife being offered a contract to make a lot of knives.
the newspaper was The Oswego Daily Times Friday Oct. 5th 1894
In the early 1900's Maher and Grosh catalogs had single blade metal handled boy's knives for 42 cents a dozen.48 if you wanted them shipped.
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Rodger 6 cents for shipping seems a little excessive no?
Kg those grinding wheels sound like a lot of fun. Great idea for a thread though. All the articles I have relate to Honk Falls and Napanoch. Here is another one.
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Great topic! Thanks for starting it. ::tu::
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Really interesting reading about old knife news. What is even more
interesting is the reporting of this in the newspaper.

I remember getting interested in reading the paper 50 years ago.
I wish the papers contained those human interest local stories today.

Thanks for the post!

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Just how many knife companies were there in the 1900's?

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Ditto what Dale said. I have been trying to use old newspapers for research off and on for the last year or so, particularly in the Walden area. I had a really good website that had a lot of the small village papers from New York state, but failed to bookmark it, and lost it. After a couple of hours of hair pulling and occasional profanity, I found it again last night. Below is a link to it.

http://walden.advantage-preservation.com

Another site that has links to a few old newspaper databases:

http://guides.rcls.org/waldatabases/

In the second one, the newspapers databases can be accessed by clicking on "databases A - Z". There is also a way to get to the first link through this one.

I have also used a site called www.newspapers.com. However, this one needs and account and does not include a lot of the smaller newspapers. A friend from work has an account and lets me access the site through his account.
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Here is one from page 1 of the Citizen Herald, published in Walden on May 9th, 1929.
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danno50 wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2020 5:02 pm Here is one from page 1 of the Citizen Herald, published in Walden on May 9th, 1929.
May 1929,not the best time to start a factory.
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peanut740 wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2020 6:41 pm
danno50 wrote: Thu Feb 13, 2020 5:02 pm Here is one from page 1 of the Citizen Herald, published in Walden on May 9th, 1929.
May 1929,not the best time to start a factory.
For sure, I believe the Orange Cutlery Co only lasted a year or so?
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Making knives is dangerous
Cazenovia Republican March 18 , 1888
Oswego Palladium 1884
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Canastota Knife Co
"Rome Sentinel June 15 1888"-(740 patterns)
"Cazenovia Republican Jan 4 1877"-(1000 dozen)
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knifegnome and Jay, would you guys mind saying what web site you use to do your newspaper searches?
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knifegnome wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2020 3:58 am Making knives is dangerous
Cazenovia Republican March 18 , 1888
Oswego Palladium 1884
I think OSHA has dropped the ball on these!
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From the Walden Citizen Herald in May 1929
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That is interesting Dan. To answer your question I found those articles just cruising the internet.
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Thanks Jay.
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A few more reports of injuries at the Walden Knife Co. All of these are from Warwick newspapers between 1909 and 1919. Also one mixed in there about Walden knives on the Lusitania.
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All the below news listings is from the accumulation of posted news stories from: June 1884, through: January 1927 published from two newspapers, "Gazette & Courier" and "Turner Falls & Reporter." All related to accidents within the John Russell Cutlery Company.
These injuries are written within the book. I am sure that many other accidents occurred at JRCC but just never made it in print.
The book is also a wonderful guide to the history of John Russell Cutlery.

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the website is Fultonhistory.com ,I sometimes have trouble getting on the website,when you get on the correct site it will have a goldfish swim across the screen a stick his tongue out at you.You then click to do a search,at the left will be a search area , below it I search for" the exact words",then enter what your looking for and click " search". You will get zero to a thousand hits.Select a newspaper and it will show up on the screen to the right,the words you searched for should be highlighted in color (but not always). Owner is Tom Tryniski and it is free to use.
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